By Anupama Ravindran and Sribindu Chivukula
Introduction
After arriving at an invention, it is often the case that there is an improvement or modification of the invention. The improvements or modifications may happen as a natural process of improving an invention, or as a result of feedback received from the market or the industry. In such cases, where the invention is alre...

By Someshwar Banerjee & Aruna Verma
Introduction
Post-dating means to change the priority date of a patent application to a later date. The Indian Patents Act facilitates a patent application, whether provisional or non-provisional, to be post-dated under Section 17 of the Patents Act, 1970, to a maximum of six months, from the date of making of such application, provided th...

By Iype Mathew
One of the special features of the negative list based service tax regime, introduced with effect from 1st July, 2012, is the introduction of the concept of declared services (Section 66E of the Finance Act, 1994). Declared services, which are actually described in 9 serial entries, are required to be treated as ‘service’ for the purposes of the Finance Ac...

9th Global Intellectual Property Convention will be organized from 11-13 January 2017 in New Delhi. Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (L&S) is privileged to be associated with this conference as co-organisers.

Mr. V. Lakshmikumaran, Managing Partner, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan will be the distinguished guest in the inaugural session and will also be speaking in Plena...

ASPI in association with Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan will be organising an IP Conference – ‘Indian Patent Law - A Practical Insight’ on 12th March 2015 in Paris.
This conference will discuss the specific issues in the Indian patent grant procedure as well as on substantive issues affecting the chemical and pharmaceutical industry and will highlight and provide solutions to problems usually fac...

The LITCON - Conference on IP Litigation will be organised by CII on 6th December 2014 at Chennai. Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan is one of the sponsors of this conference.
In this conference on IP litigation, Mr. R. Parthasarathy, Principal Partner and Head of IP Practice in Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan will speak.
The main aim of the conference is to discuss about the latest developments and tr...